Hidden Pasts: Developing narratives for community archaeology and local history at Arediou, Cyprus

该项目旨在向当地人民介绍他们的过去，甚至可能“重新介绍”他们的过去，包括近代和古代，并以塞浦路斯的Arediou社区为基础。其目的是通过鼓励和授权当地社区更好地了解他们的古代和现代历史之间的连续性，他们不仅会接受，而且还会获得自豪感，希望策划并最终甚至传播自己的考古学和历史。由于该岛的地理位置，塞浦路斯数百年来一直受到许多不同的文化和信仰的影响，如果不是数千年的话，不仅如此，他们还经常被他们认为是外来者甚至入侵者的人统治。因此，在整个历史中，它们经常被口述，这就是岛上许多现代居民，特别是Arediou，对他们今天的考古遗址的感觉。我们的意思是，他们感到与他们的考古学和历史“疏远”，没有联系，他们所拥有的唯一真实的信息是从中央政府部门传达给他们的。由于这种差异/不足，当地人很少尊重考古遗迹，即使是在他们自己的邻近地区-因此他们很少受到尊重，往往被视为抢劫的简单目标，或好奇心的聚集。塞浦路斯作为一个整体正在迅速变化，变得越来越“西化”。房地产开发的步伐加快，因此传统的泥砖房正在从景观中消失。另一方面，阿雷迪欧虽然经历了不可避免的变化，但在某种程度上与许多地区正在经历的压力隔绝，仍然保留了相当数量的这些旧建筑。不仅如此，由于村庄的乡村性质，它还有许多在村庄出生和长大的老年居民，他们对童年和该地区近代历史中的重要事件保持着清晰的记忆。该项目旨在向村民全面介绍他们的文化遗产/历史。通过正在进行的对该村青铜器时代遗址的挖掘，已经存在一个通往古代的大门，并且打算将其与老年居民提供的口头记录相结合，包括奥斯曼统治和最近的EOKA抵抗（反对英国占领）和1974年入侵（由土耳其），但也有许多现存的泥砖建筑在该地区的摄影记录，其中许多是奥斯曼帝国统治期间的原始家庭住宅。以这种方式构建他们的历史将使其更有意义，因此更容易为社区所接受，这也将鼓励他们，并使他们有信心掌握他们的东西。向社区传播信息的过程将通过在当地学校举办实践课程，结合向公众开放的现场访问以及用希腊语编写的信息手册来完成。此外，在尼科西亚文物部的帮助下，打算沿着展示我们在阿雷迪乌挖掘的文物，并配以故事板，永久安置在村里的新市政中心，从而使整个故事永久可见，并向更广泛的观众提供。所有的信息，然后将被编译和使用，以产生一个双语网站，将托管和定期维护从我们的服务器在威尔士大学。

This project sets out with the intention of informing local people about their past, perhaps even "re-introducing" them to the past, both recent and ancient and is based around the community of Arediou on Cyprus. It is intended that by encouraging and empowering the local community to better understand the continuity between their ancient and modern history, that they will not only embrace, but also gain the pride to want to curate and eventually even disseminate their own archaeology and history.Because of the geographical position of the island, Cyprus has been subjected to many different cultures and beliefs for hundreds, if not thousands of years, not only that, but they have also frequently been ruled by people they would deem to be outsiders or even invaders. As such they have often been dictated to throughout history, and that is how many modern-day residents of the island generally, and Arediou in particular, feel about their archaeological sites today. By that we mean that they feel "distanced" and unattached from their archaeology and therefore history, and the only real information they have is what has been communicated to them from some central government department. As a result of this discrepancy/shortfall, the locals have very little respect for the archaeological remain , even ones that fall within their own immediate area - consequently they are treated with scant regard and are often seen as simply targets for looting, or the gathering of curiosities.Cyprus as a whole is rapidly changing and becoming more and more 'Westernised'. Property developing is moving at a pace and as a consequence the traditional mud-brick houses are disappearing from the landscape. Arediou on the other hand, although experiencing inevitable change, is somewhat isolated from the pressures that many areas are experiencing and still retains a fair number of these older buildings. Not only that, but because of the rural nature of the village, it also has many older residents who were born and bred in the village, and who retain lucid memories of their childhood and important events within the recent history of the area.By combining the ancient with the modern, in other words the archaeology with the contemporary ; the project intends to present a more holistic version of their cultural heritage/history to the villagers. A doorway to the ancient already exists via the ongoing excavation of a Bronze Age site in the village and it is intended that this should be coupled with not only the oral record provided by the older residents, including accounts of Ottoman rule and more recently EOKA resistance (against British occupation) and the 1974 invasion (by Turkey), but also a photographic record of many of the extant mud-brick buildings within the area, many of which were the original family homes during Ottoman rule. Constructing their history in this way will make it more meaningful and therefore accessible to the community, it will also encourage them and give them the confidence to take possession of what is, and always has been, theirs. The process of disseminating the information to the community will be done via hands-on sessions in the local school, combined with site visits that would be open to the general public, as well as an information booklet written in Greek. In addition and along with help from the Department of Antiquities in Nicosia it is intended to provide a display of artefacts from our excavation at Arediou accompanied by story boards, to be permanently housed in the new Civic Centre in the village, thereby making the whole story permanently visible and available to a much wider audience. All the information will then be compiled and used to produce a bi-lingual website that would be hosted and regularly maintained from our servers at the University in Wales.